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Solaris 10 10/09 Installation Guide: Planning for Installation and Upgrade
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Preface
Part I Overall Planning of Any Solaris Installation or Upgrade
Chapter 1 Where to Find Solaris Installation Planning Information
Where to Find Planning and System Requirement Information
Chapter 2 What's New in Solaris Installation
What's New in the Solaris 10 10/09 Release for Installation
ZFS and Flash Installation Support
Two-Terabyte Disk Support for Installing and Booting the Solaris OS
Faster Installations
Zones Parallel Patching Reduces Patching Time
What's New in the Solaris 10 10/08 Release for Installation
Installing a ZFS Root File System
Structure Change for Installation Media
What's New in the Solaris 10 8/07 Release for Installation
Upgrading the Solaris OS When Non-Global Zones Are Installed
New sysidkdb Tool Prevents Having to Configure Your Keyboard
Prevent Prompting When You Use the JumpStart Program
NFSv4 Domain Name Configurable During Installation
What's New in the Solaris 10 11/06 Release for Installation
Enhanced Security Using the Restricted Networking Profile
Installing Solaris Trusted Extensions
Solaris Flash Can Create an Archive That Includes Large Files
What's New in the Solaris 10 1/06 Release for Solaris Installation
Upgrading the Solaris OS When Non-Global Zones Are Installed
x86: GRUB Based Booting
Upgrade Support Changes for Solaris Releases
What's New in the Solaris 10 3/05 Release for Solaris Installation
Solaris Installation Changes Including Installation Unification
Accessing the GUI or Console-based Installations
Custom JumpStart Installation Package and Patch Enhancements
Configuring Multiple Network Interfaces During Installation
SPARC: 64-bit Package Changes
Custom JumpStart Installation Method Creates New Boot Environment
Reduced Networking Software Group
Modifying Disk Partition Tables by Using a Virtual Table of Contents
x86: Change in Default Boot-Disk Partition Layout
Chapter 3 Solaris Installation and Upgrade (Roadmap)
Task Map: Installing or Upgrading the Solaris Software
Installing From the Network or From DVD or CDs?
Initial Installation, or Upgrade?
Initial Installation
Upgrade
Choosing a Solaris Installation Method
Chapter 4 System Requirements, Guidelines, and Upgrade (Planning)
System Requirements and Recommendations
Allocating Disk and Swap Space
General Disk Space Planning and Recommendations
Disk Space Recommendations for Software Groups
Upgrade Planning
Upgrading and Patching Limitations
Upgrade Programs
Installing a Solaris Flash Archive Instead of Upgrading
Creating an Archive That Contains Large Files
Upgrading With Disk Space Reallocation
Using the Patch Analyzer When Upgrading
Backing Up And Restarting Systems For an Upgrade
Planning Network Security
Restricted Security Specifics
Revising Security Settings After Installation
Locale Values
Platform Names and Groups
x86: Partitioning Recommendations
Default Boot-Disk Partition Layout Preserves the Service Partition
How to Find the Version of the Solaris OS That Your System Is Running
Chapter 5 Gathering Information Before Installation or Upgrade (Planning)
Checklist for Installation
Checklist for Upgrading
Part II Understanding Installations That Relate to ZFS, Booting, Solaris Zones, and RAID-1 Volumes
Chapter 6 ZFS Root File System Installation (Planning)
What's New in the Solaris 10 10/09 Release
Requirements for Installing a ZFS Root Pool
Disk Space Requirements for a ZFS Installation
Solaris Installation Programs for Installing ZFS Root Pools
Chapter 7 SPARC and x86 Based Booting (Overview and Planning)
Booting for Solaris (Overview)
Booting ZFS Boot Environments (Overview)
x86: GRUB Based Booting (Overview)
x86: GRUB Based Booting (Planning)
x86: Performing a GRUB Based Installation From the Network
Chapter 8 Upgrading When Solaris Zones Are Installed on a System (Planning)
Solaris Zones (Overview)
Upgrading With Non-Global Zones
Backing Up Your System Before Performing an Upgrade With Zones
Disk Space Requirements for Non-Global Zones
Chapter 9 Creating RAID-1 Volumes (Mirrors) During Installation (Overview)
Why Use RAID-1 Volumes?
How Do RAID-1 Volumes Work?
Overview of Solaris Volume Manager Components
State Database and State Database Replicas
RAID-1 Volumes (Mirrors)
RAID-0 Volumes (Concatenations)
Example of RAID-1 Volume Disk Layout
Chapter 10 Creating RAID-1 Volumes (Mirrors) During Installation (Planning)
System Requirement
State Database Replicas Guidelines and Requirements
Selecting Slices for State Database Replicas
Choosing the Number of State Database Replicas
Distributing State Database Replicas Across Controllers
RAID-1 and RAID-0 Volume Requirements and Guidelines
Custom JumpStart and Solaris Live Upgrade Guidelines
RAID Volume Name Requirements and Guidelines for Custom JumpStart and Solaris Live Upgrade
RAID Volume Naming Conventions for Solaris Live Upgrade
RAID-Volume Naming Conventions for Custom JumpStart
Guidelines for Selecting Disks and Controllers
Guidelines for Selecting Slices
Booting Into Single-User Mode Causes Mirror to Appear to Need Maintenance
Glossary
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